Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church located in Camerton, built in 1694 and 1796, with a tower added in 1855 on a medieval site. The church features roughcast walls, while the tower is made of calciferous sandstone rubble and includes angle buttresses. It has a graduated greenslate roof. The structure consists of a three-bay nave with a square west tower/porch and a south chapel, along with a single-bay chancel. The tower has a west door set in a chamfered pointed arch, flanked by lancet windows and quatrefoil bell openings, topped by a short octagonal spire. The nave is adorned with two-light plate-tracery windows, and the chancel contains two small trefoil-headed windows, one in the east wall, as well as a three-light east window. Inside, the church has plain plaster walls and ceiling, decorated with numerous 19th-century wall plaques. Notable features include a 1510 effigy of Knight Thomas Curwen, known as Black Tom, and a wooden panel dated 1625, removed from Camerton Hall, inscribed with the initials B.C. and H.C. (Henry & Bridget Curwen). Most of the woodwork dates from the late 19th century.